Tom Cruise shirtless & Ripped in Rock of Ages Photo

[Ladies – click the picture twice it gets bigger!]   Tom Cruise is rockin’ his way back to the top. I always say, talent is talent and we all know that Tom is talented!
1st off, it’s hard to believe Tom Cruise is 48. 48 – Geezus! Not only because Top Gun and A Few Good Men don’t seem like that long ago, but because Tom Cruise is ripped and tatted like….well like a Rock God!

In Rock of Ages, Cruise plays Stacee Jaxx. The film is about a girl who travels to Hollywood in the 80’s where Rock N Roll was real Rock N Roll.
The film due out next July might actually be good – or dare I say Great.
The director Alan Shankman (Hair Spray & The Pacifier) is extremely excited!

“It wasn’t until our first go around with his voice lesson that we sort of looked at each other and went, ‘This is gonna work!’”………“And we were basically dancing around the living room and high-fiving each other because he actually has a fantastic voice. His grandfather or his great-grandfather was an opera singer, so apparently he’s genetically predisposed for this sort of thing.”

Who knew that Tom Cruise could sing? We know he can dance (Tropic Thunder), so I guess that makes him a triple threat!
Russell Brand, Alec Baldwin and Julianne Hough are all on board this flick as you can see from the photos.

The problem with an 80’s flick is that there are a lot of people who don’t care about the eighties – so it will be interesting to see if the stars can bring enough hype to transfer into dollars at the Box office. Summer 2012, doesn’t smell like Summer blockbuster to me.
I say bring on Mission Impossible 4!